Abstract:For decades, researchers and educators have been concerned about reading achievement of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students (Lange, Lane-Outlaw, Lange, & Sherwood, 2013). Academic performance scores among Deaf students is below that of their hearing counterparts, especially in literacy (Anita, Jones, Reed, & Kreimeyer, 2009). Traxler (2000 found that, on average, DHH students graduating high school read at approximately a fourth-grade level. In 2015, only 36% of DHH students met or exceeded grade level exp… Show more
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